SoundExchange’s 2014 unclaimed royalties drop: Billboard’s Glenn Peoples investigated SoundExchange’s 2014 numbers and uncovered that the company had fewer unclaimed royalties last year. The overall number actually rose to $109 million unclaimed. However, that number is proportionally smaller: just 14.1% of all distributions (down from 16.3%).

A primer on streaming inequalities: Two of The Verge’s staffers wrote a conversational primer that explains many artists’ current dilemmas about streaming. They offer a level-headed take on why many artists are frustrated, and why labels are a big part of the problem.

Pirate Bay co-founder at it again: Speaking of dilemmas for artists (and for anybody else in the biz), Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has embarked on a new political art statement. He told Ars Technica that he’s “making a point” by creating code that makes near-countless copies of a song and then moves them directly to the computer’s trash file. His aim is “to make the audio track the most copied in the world and while doing so bankrupting the record industry.”